Hilltopper Happenings highlights the many ways Elgin Academy is inspiring students to be our creative, courageous, and compassionate future. Stories about our students, faculty, and programs are shared on our website.
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This week Elgin Academy was one of the schools featured in an article by Daily Herald journalist Eric Peterson. The piece focused on private schools and in-person learning. Elgin Academy's campus has been open to in-person learning since August 27th. Read Article
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On Friday, September 25th, many Elgin Academy families participated in the Homecoming Parade which took place during morning Drop-Off. They were welcomed on campus by Foxman who was rocking some serious dance moves. Enjoy! View on YouTube
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Thank you for supporting Elgin Academy’s student clubs and activities by participating in our Virtual Dunk tank. Together we more than doubled our goal and raised over $2,000 for our Hilltoppers!
We hope you enjoy this video of Foxman dumping Gatorade on Coach Pinson and Coach Williams, hitting Mr. Sept in the face with a pie, dying Mrs. Kut's hair pink, and soaking Mr. Hanford with water balloons! We thank all of them for being such good sports! View Video on YouTube
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The Elgin Academy Girls Tennis Team along with Coaches Perez and Moe participated in the 5K Your Way as part of EA's Homecoming Festivities. EA 8th Grader, Kaan Bruss, finished his 5K Your Way and the Metzler family did their 5K their way at Waterfall Glen in Lemont. Congratulations to all! #EA5KYourWay
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Somebody clearly forgot to tell Coach Williams that it was a No-Talent Talent Show because not only did he write his own lyrics but he plays the piano to Radiohead's Creep. It was such a hit it left at least one audience member in tears! View Video on YouTube
The Upper School Improv & No-Talent Talent Show is just one of the many Homecoming activities being held this weekend as part of Elgin Academy's week of Homecoming festivities. #HilltopperHomecoming2020
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In celebration of Elgin Academy's Homecoming, Ms. Boborci's third graders enjoyed a beautiful day playing croquet and bean bag toss on the Quad! #hilltopperhomecoming2020
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Throughout Homecoming week the Middle School students participated in Dress Up/Spirit Days to the fullest. #hilltopperhomecoming2020
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In Ms. Bayer's Intro to Fine Arts/Theatre class, students performed monologues from ancient Greek tragedies. They are portraying characters like Creon, Antigone, Medea, and more. They also made their own character masks patterned after the tragedy masks worn by ancient Greek actors. Ms. Bayer said, "since they have to wear face masks to perform, I thought we would just lean into it!"